Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Certification
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 117 121
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 +46
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 13 15 17
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.49% 0.73% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.93% 2.89% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 11
10th Percentile £400 £295 £263
25th Percentile £475 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £669 £679
90th Percentile £800 £761 £750
London median daily rate £525 £500 £498
% change year-on-year +5.00% +0.50% -7.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 675 519 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.63% 25.10% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 346 333
10th Percentile £405 £350 £376
25th Percentile £463 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year - -0.45% -1.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £734 £755 £775
London median daily rate £528 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 6
10th Percentile £19.48 £25.04 £20.22
25th Percentile £26.58 £26.57 £20.29
Median hourly rate £41.75 £34.48 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.09% +43.67% -33.52%
75th Percentile £57.69 £57.96 £27.00
90th Percentile £66.18 £65.57 £35.38
London median hourly rate £54.00 £25.74 £26.00
% change year-on-year +109.83% -1.02% -51.85%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Central London over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -8 10 £515 -14.17% 11
Southwark - 2 £650 -
Microsoft Certification
London

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
3 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.69%) Cloudflare
5 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
5 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) VPN
4 1 (7.69%) DHCP
4 1 (7.69%) DKIM
4 1 (7.69%) DMARC
4 1 (7.69%) LAN
4 1 (7.69%) Network Security
4 1 (7.69%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Customer Service Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (7.69%) Node.js
1 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) iPad
2 1 (7.69%) iPhone
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Android
3 1 (7.69%) VMS
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
1 5 (38.46%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Case Management
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (15.38%) High Availability
4 2 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
5 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) A+ Certification
4 1 (7.69%) CCNA
4 1 (7.69%) CCNP
4 1 (7.69%) MCSE
4 1 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Firmware
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) EMC
2 1 (7.69%) Okta
2 1 (7.69%) Remedy
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) VMware